Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Tyburn gallows (London, England)
Ordeal of water was of two kinds: In one the person undergoing the ordeal
was thrown into deep water; if, without swimming, he floated, he was
deemed guilty; if he sank, innocent. In this case the ordeal was probably
of boiling water, in which the person plunged his arm into boiling water;
the arm was bound up, and on its appearance after a certain time judgment
was given.
[114] Chronicles: Matthew Paris, Chron. Maj., ed. Luard, iii. 71-3;
“Hist. Anglor.,” ed. Madden, ii., 251-2; “John of Oxenede,” ed. Ellis,
147; Chron. Dunstable (in Annales Monastici) ed. Luard, iii. 78-9.
Evidently, what was at first a riot had developed into a revolt, for
“Montjoie!” was the cry of the French prince, Louis, who, brought over
by the barons, had but recently given up his pretensions to the English
crown. The alleged violation of the king’s oath afterwards furnished
Louis with a pretext for refusing a restitution demanded by the English
king.
“The Elms,” mentioned as the place of execution, was certainly The Elms
of Tyburn, as shown by Sir J. H. Ramsay, in the _Athenæum_ of September
7, 1907.
[115] Chron. Matthew Paris, Chron. Maj., ed. Luard, iii. 370. Tyburn is
not mentioned as the place of execution.
[116] Chron. Matthew Paris, Chron. Maj., ed. Luard, iii. 543-5; “Flores
Hist.,” ed. Luard, ii. 231. Tyburn is not expressly mentioned as the
place of execution.
[117] Matthew Paris, Chron. Maj., ed. Luard, iv. 193-6. Matthew of
Westminster, “Flores Histor.,” ii. 253. The names of William’s captors,
William Bardulf and Richard de Warenne, are given in “Liber de Antiquis
Legibus,” Riley’s translation, p. 9.
The place of Marsh’s execution is not given in the great chronicles, but
we are able to supply it from Gregory’s Chronicle (Camden Society, 1876):
“Henry III., Anno xxv. Ande that yere dyde Saynt Roger, Byshoppe of
London. And Wylliam Marche was drawe and hangyd at Tyburne,” p. 65. This
may make us less doubtful in allotting to Tyburn executions the place of
which is not specially mentioned.
[118] See “The Jews of Angevin England,” by Joseph Jacobs, pp. 19-21, 75.
[119] Matthew Paris, Chron. Maj., ed. Luard, v. 516-9, 552. A full list
of authorities is given by Mr. Albert M. Hyamson, “A History of the Jews
in England,” (1908), p. 87.
[120] “Liber de Antiquis Legibus,” translated by H. T. Riley, 1863, pp.
104, 105. Tyburn is not mentioned as the place of execution.
[121] Annals of Dunstable, in Annales Monastici, ed. Luard, iii. 279.
Tyburn is not expressly mentioned.
[122] Chronicles: Annals of Dunstable, in Annal. Monas., ed. Luard,
iii. 314; Ann. de Wigornia, in Annal. Monas., iv. 489, 490; the French
Chronicle of London, Riley’s translation, 248; Stow’s “Survey of London,”
ed. Thoms, 96. (Stow gives the number hanged as sixteen.) Tyburn is not
expressly mentioned.
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